Gentoo-isms #4 – net-dns/bind named fails to start: OpenSSL pseudorandom number generator cannot be initialized

Upon updating a very long established net-dns/bind, a restart of named caused a very surprising gulp of nearly 8GBytes of virtual RAM! After a few bits of debug and puzzlement and suspicion that the new “pie” use flag might be at play, a ‘quick fix’ to try was to reinstall bind… Whereupon the following . . . → Read More: Gentoo-isms #4 – net-dns/bind named fails to start: OpenSSL pseudorandom number generator cannot be initialized

Gentoo-isms #3 – Updating Gentoo

If updating on the commandline, Gentoo uses the very powerful emerge command of (the python based) Portage, the Gentoo package manager. (See Wikipedia – Portage for a good brief summary.)

However, with that great power and with Gentoo comes lots of options… There are also additional utilities and steps needed to keep your Gentoo . . . → Read More: Gentoo-isms #3 – Updating Gentoo

Safely Enabling SVG Support in WordPress

Or… Should the title be “Wot?! WordPress doesn’t support SVG?!!”

The Scalable Vector Graphics image format was released over 17 years ago on 04/09/2001 and the current version was released 8 years ago (v1.1 on 16/08/2011). All current major browsers support displaying SVG. As shown in the NLUG SVG talk recently, there are very . . . → Read More: Safely Enabling SVG Support in WordPress

OpenCL clinfo LLVM Errors Solution

Suffering the following sort of errors from clinfo or from other OpenCL or graphics applications?

Intrinsic has incorrect return type!LLVM ERROR: Broken function found, compilation aborted!

Then one possible cause is that there is a version mismatch between “libclc” and whichever dependent systems…

If so, the fix is to recompile (or install an updated . . . → Read More: OpenCL clinfo LLVM Errors Solution

Raspberry Pi 4 is Here, Now, Early!

24th Jun 2019 at 7:00 am: Eben Upton makes a surprise announcement for the Raspberry Pi 4!

This is indeed a “surprise”… The expected cadence of new versions of the Raspberry Pi suggested that the v4 would be appearing sometime mid 2020 or later… However, as noted in the announcement blog:

We budgeted time . . . → Read More: Raspberry Pi 4 is Here, Now, Early!